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Prophet

Prophet

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G'day case experts..

I'm looking for a nice, spacious case to house my upgraded bit.

It's have a AMD X3 720 CPU, Sapphire 4850 and around 5 hard drives.

Criteria:

Great cooling
Space for multiple drives
Cable management
Quiet in standard for or with a fan change

I'm also looking for a fan controller to suit. The PC will be in my living room so I need it to be as quiet as possible.

I've already got a PSU.
 
Whats your budget?

How many drives do you need space for?

Silverstone Fortress is a great case and will be highly recommended.
 
There is always the Antec 300? Its about half your budget so you may want to look for somthing more, but can hold plenty of drives and is a great case for the money.

Im a fan of Lian-Li cases which have a clean simple look which will look fine in a living room (not full of windows and LED's looking flashy), but cant really find one for your budget that can hold enough hard drives :(
 
Ducky Spud said:
There is always the Antec 300? Its about half your budget so you may want to look for somthing more, but can hold plenty of drives and is a great case for the money.

Im a fan of Lian-Li cases which have a clean simple look which will look fine in a living room (not full of windows and LED's looking flashy), but cant really find one for your budget that can hold enough hard drives :(
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I'm a fan of Lian-Li's too. Got a perfectly good PC-7, old style with 2X80mm fans at the front. I could use that but just worried it's not 'cool' enough for the X3 CPU?
 
5 HDDs? Are you running RAID or do you simply have huge amounts of data? If possible, I'd try and consolidate your data onto a couple of drives - it will be quieter, consume less power, run cooler, give you better airflow in most cases and give you more cases to choose from. An old style PC-7 with a couple of drives in and decent cable management (you might have to do some cutting for optimal cable paths) should be plenty cool enough for an X3 assuming you have a decent CPU cooler.
 
Well you could spend some money improving the cooling in that case rather than getting a new one altogether if you wanted?

Get a Noctua CPU cooler for around £50. Leaves another £50 for 2x 80mm fans and 2x120mm fans (think thats right for your case isnt it?)

Could also set aside £20 or so for a fan controller if you want to be able to turn them down quite a bit :)
 
Louis_Y said:
5 HDDs? Are you running RAID or do you simply have huge amounts of data? If possible, I'd try and consolidate your data onto a couple of drives - it will be quieter, consume less power, run cooler, give you better airflow in most cases and give you more cases to choose from. An old style PC-7 with a couple of drives in and decent cable management (you might have to do some cutting for optimal cable paths) should be plenty cool enough for an X3 assuming you have a decent CPU cooler.
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Currently I've got a 160GB OS drive and 3 large data drives. Standard SATA configuration as they're just storage.

Ideally I'd like 2 HDD's in the case and a multi bay external caddy, but they're all silly money so I thought I'd just stick the drives in the PC.



Ducky Spud said:
Well you could spend some money improving the cooling in that case rather than getting a new one altogether if you wanted?

Get a Noctua CPU cooler for around £50. Leaves another £50 for 2x 80mm fans and 2x120mm fans (think thats right for your case isnt it?)

Could also set aside £20 or so for a fan controller if you want to be able to turn them down quite a bit :)
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I believe the case only has 3 X 80mm fans. 2 at the front and one below the PSU.

I guess I'd really like a new case but as I know the Lian-Li is really quiet especially with the fan controller.

Quite like the look of the Antec 300 and Coolermaster Dominator 690.

Going to have a look at new fan controllers and fans too.
 
I must have seen the wrong case then, one I saw had a 120mm Exhause and 120mm in the roof as well. Cooling wont be best if its only 3 80mm fans really.
 
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